News

Over the last year we have been blessed with wonderful volunteers in the church office: Sharon Amburgey, Judy Andrews, Leigha Blevins, Carol Efker, Linda Lombard, Paulette McCandless, Mary Bob Powers, Tim Powers, Linda Poynter, and Betty Stacy. This dedicated group helps to keep supplies ordered, newsletters and bulletins published, phones answered, and all the miscellaneous things covered. Please remember to say thank you to them during Administrative Professionals Week April 21-25.

Mark and Laureen invite young adults (post high school through 29 years old) to their house for dinner, study and discussion on Sunday, February 23 at 6:00p.m.  The group will view a NOOMA video and discuss. They will also discuss goals and desires for the group’s future.

As part of our journey through Jesus’ parables, we would like you to share your personal God stories.  Take some time and think about when there has been a time in your life when God has moved powerfully in your life, a moment when God touched your heart, or a special time when your faith grew.  Then write the story down and give to Linda Lombard (Worship Ministry Co-Chairperson), put in the Worship mailbox outside the office, or email to office@fcc-middletown.org .  You can also share your story in the comment section below.  We will compile all the stories into a special FCC God Storybook.  Copies of the storybook will be made and shared as part of Lent.  Deadline for stories is Feb. 23.

February 16 – March 2, we will explore Stories of Jesus as our worship theme.  The scripture texts will be from the parables Jesus’ shared during his life and ministry.  There are a lot of parables.  So, in order to plan for worship and accompanying sermons, we would like to know your favorite parable.  The top three will be used for sermons.  The others will be used in creative ways throughout worship.  Please write down your favorite parable and give to Laureen or send it to office@fcc-middletown.org.  Thanks!

In December, we changed our Sunday morning schedule and moved to one worship service followed by CE classes.  Upon making this change, the Worship and Christian Education Ministry teams said they would assess the changes in January.  In recent weeks, feedback forms have been available for people to share their thoughts and experiences.  When our Worship and CE teams met to discuss these changes, the general consensus was that the schedule is going well.  A few adjustments have been made to worship and will continue to be made as we move forward in ministry.  Worship will be ever-changing as we move and grow as a people of God.  Overall sentiment is that as a church we like to be together in one worship service, but we express ourselves differently when worshipping.  Thus, our blended-style worship is relevant to who we are collectively as one in Christ.